Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 September 1946 — Page 15

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SOUTH ALABAMA- st, “jogs® at an alley that separates the 1400 and 1500 blocks, North of the Jog it's a narrow quiet street, Around the jog it's suddenly transformed into a very green little court,

centered with a tree filled esplahade, An abundance of trees and grass gives the section’ a secluded and very “countrified” air, ... . The esplanade beautifies the block, but it also causes quite a bit of trouble. A while back there was a squabble because children » Were playing in the wide expanse that centers the [ Then, a few weeks ‘agb, everybody got mad the park department because the grass was knee high. “We raised a ruckus, and they finally came out and cut it,” Mrs. Elizabeth Ressler, of 1514, explained, Mrs. Ressler like many other residents, thinks the ery sibuia resume its prewar practice of keeping

“Why years back they kept an “attendant there all the time,” she said. “They kept up four beautiful flower beds and the grass was just like velvet with not a weed in it. I guess they did have to stop it during the war but maybe if you let them know we're raising cain about it they'll stop letting it go to ruin.” . . . Mrs. Ressler's neighbor, Mrs, Matilda Gross, whose house forms the north end of the “court” agrees that the esplanade should be kept beautiful. “Aunt Matilda” who's lived on the same lot 65 years, remembers that the land for the esplanade was donated to the city “as a beautifying spot,” either by ex-Gov. Hendricks or Gen, Coburn, as she recalls. “Aunt Matilda,” who's known around the neighbor= hood for her helping hand during fimes of illness, has been ill herself for a few weeks, One table is covered with “get well” cards from her many friends and just the other morning she received a beautiful

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Five-year-old Patsy Tietz . . . on washday, mama's little helper,

Bald Barometer

WASHINGTON, Sept. 25—“When a man has stock in a company that holds stock in a company that he has stock in (I am not, either, quoting Alice in Wonderland) the situation does get a little complicated.” Whew. The man involved in this little complication is Henry J. Kaiser, who built 1000 ships, heads a billion dollar industrial empire, and who tries— but does not always succeed—to keep in. mind a million dollars here and a couple of million there. The man who voiced the dismaying first sentence in this dispatch is Rep. Alvin F. Weichel of Sandusky, O. As a member of the congressional committee. investigating ship building profits, he managed to keep the portly Kaiser's bald dome changing color like a chameleon on a Scotch plaid blanket. The varying shades of the Kaiser noggin provided an excellent barometer of his temper. Pink meant that he was only medium sore; scarlet indited that he was getting good and mad; purple oved that he had to restrain himself from chopping down the congressman and using him for propeller shaft stuffing in a Liberty ship.

Company Had Integrity REP. WEICHEL said (ignoring the purple) that he couldn’t understand how the banks had loaned $5,000,000 to Kaiser's Permanente Metal Co. when it only had $460,000 in capital. “Because the company had integrity,” began Mr, Kaiser. “The men behind it had integrity . . .” “yes, -but it had no assets, hardly,” interrupted Rep. Weichel.

Science

THE RADIO proximity fuse, the device which turned the tide in the Battle of the Bulge and which enabled our warships to approach the coast of Japan, was perfected by a group of scientists who began their job to the tune of skeptical disinterest on the » part of the military. I have talked with top-ranking scientists who worked on the fuse and I would judge that the attitude was a little better than the complete brush-off which the navy gave Dr. Enrico Fermi when he first suggested the atomic bomb to it but definitely worse than the “mild interest” which the army and navy expressed when Dr, N. C. Hickman first suggested rocket weapons, As you will recall, thé radio proximity fusé was sctually a miniature radio sending and receiving set ich was placed in the nose of a shell. It sent t a short-wave radio impulse which when reflected Back from the target caused the shell to explode. The fuse increased the accuracy of our anti-aircraft ghells some hundred-fold and thus enabled the navy to do what many experts had said could never be done, namely, steam within the range of enemy landbased planes,

Protection Worthless

IT TURNED the tide in the Battle of the Bulge because the fuse could be adjusted so as to explode the shell just over the treetops. As a result it rendered foxholes and similar methods of protection worthless for the Nazi troops. But when the group -of scientists who developed the fuse began their first tests, they used a crude gun made? of a section of iron’ pipe nailed to a plank. The devices which enabled our armed forces to win the war were developed for theém by scientists working through the office of scientific research and development, Dr. Vennevar Bush, director of. that

My Day

HYDE PARK, Tuesday—We are now in the midst of dog week, and I thought about it as I was walking through the woods this morning with Fala, who has the most wonderful time dashing after squirrels and rabbits, going through the swamps and coming in soaked but happy. It seems to me that, during this week, those of us who really-care about dogs should remind people that they can bring great companionship and pleasure but, in return, they must be well cared for, I have seen people move away from a house and just leave their dogs and cats to stray in the neighborhood and steal food. That seems to me an inhuman thing to do. Dogs grow fond of their families, and so, if you have to separate from them, then find them a new . family where they will be well cared for. People should not have dogs if they cannot feed them

properly.

eed Right Kind of Food A DOG'S food costs comparatively little, but he should get it regularly and properly prepared. Pup- * ples particularly need the right kind of food or. they will get rickets, just like children, ; A dog in a family ‘has great educational value. Children oan learn that you-have to have consideration for a dog, just as you would for a person, Thet ds a good lesson to learn early in life, because

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the esplanade cut, as well as replace the flower beds. «

“By Donna Mikels potted plant, She put the plant in the window that

looks out on the flowerless esplanade, to add ‘the decorative touch that’s been missing too long, ~

‘Mama's Little Helper’

, FIVE-YEAR-OLD Patsy Tietz and her dog, “Schnappsie,” were being “mama's little helpers” when we passed their house. The pinafore-clad’ girl was gravely hanging up “little clothes” (socks, handkerchiefs and doilies) on her own: little line. Schnappsie,” who was supposed to be “helping her,” got himself tangled up in the clothes pin basket and had dumped them all out on the ground. “Schnapps is a bad dog because I had to pick them all up,” Patsy told us as Schnapps chewed away on one pin she hadn't been able to retrieve. The pair always wait anxiously for washday to come around because they “like to help,” Mrs. Alphonse Tietz, Patsy's mother, told us. Mrs. Tietz is always “anxious” too, but in a different way, Despite their desire to “help” the two have a way of becoming bottlenecks.

corner of the yard, just to keep everybody happy and get the wash done at the same time, ,, . A washing was also in progress at the house next door, the home of Mrs. Anna Wachtel, Mrs. Wachtel is visiting a son in Cincinnati, and her daughter, Mrs, Clare Mueller, of 2462 8. Delaware, had come over to do the family wash, Like many other housewives, Mrs. Mueller is on a waiting list for a washing machine. “I have three or four ordered,” she said, “but I still have to come to mother's to wash until I can find one.”

Love Apple Plant

JUST WALKING by her house we would have guessed that Mrs. Charles. Specker, 1526, was a lover of flowers. She is, we learned, but that is just one of her many sidelines, On her front porch sh: has several arrangements of potted plants. The one that interested us was a tree, bearing something that looked like a cross between an orange and a small tomato. “Love apples,” Mrs. Specker told us. “Can't understand why they call it a ‘love’ plant, though,” she said, “just look at stickers everyplace on it.” Maybe, we suggested, the thorns were supposed to be symbolic. ‘We wondered what the apples looked like on the inside and our curiosity made Mrs. Specker wonder too, We opened one and found it looked more like a tomato than an “apple. It had a lot of seeds in a somewhat hollow center. . , . In addition to her plants and clusters of artificial flowers inside the house, Mrs. Specker has two other hobbies.. In two cases she has 210 salt and pepper shaker sets, no two sets alike. And, in another collection she keeps some 300 mafch book covers. While we looked over salt shakers and folders she told us about years back when that block was a duck pond dnd the first house in the area (it still stands back on Kennington) was built on stilts. “We used to drive out here and watch the ducks,” she laughed. “I didn’t think then I'd move right smack dab in the middle of it some day.”

By Frederick C. Othman

“Well,” explained Mr. Kaiser. “If that’s the way you think, I'd like to see you try to borrow $5,000,000 from a bank.” The purple turned to scarlet. Rep. Weichel had no reply. Mr. Kaiser chuckled. The scarlet receded to pink. And so it went, as the congressmen and their lawyer tried to legd Mr. Kaiser through-a financial setup more complicated by far than a Joshua Hendy steam engine. Mr. Kaiser used to own a chunk of the Hendy Engine Co., too, but let's not go into that. He runs 28 different industries; the government still owes him millions; he owes the government other millions,

Mr. Kaiser's Round

REP. FRED BRADLEY, of Michigan, said he was disturbed by the fact that Mr. Kaiser couldn't remember whether he'd made one $11,000,000 loan. He said that wasn't peanuts. Mr. Kaiser said he knew it wasn’t. Only he deals in coconuts. “And where go you get the statement that you saved the American taxpayers $250,000,000 in the building of ships,” Rep. Bradley demanded. Mr. Kaiser smiled. The pink became pale. He laughed. There used to be a senator from: Missouri named Truman, Harry S. He got a better job a while back, but while he still was a senator, he investigated Mr. Kaiser's operations. “Investigated us good,” Mr. Kaiser said. “And announced in his formal report that we built those ships $250,000,000 cheaper than anybody else could of.” Oops. Bad grammar, but Mr. Kaiser's round. I'm beginning to like the guy. Only fellow I ever knew who forgot $11,000,000. ’

By David Dietz

organization, was the first civilian to attend meetings of the joint chiefs of staff. And yet the draft policy instituted by the army and navy was the only one in the world which took no proper regard of scientists and students of science. Both Britain and Russia were careful about conserving their scientists. But our selective service policy drew howls of anguish from the American Chemical society and other - equally competent organizations and caused eminent scientists to say that the nation would suffer a “lost generation of scientists” as a result. Dr. Bush himself criticized the policy severely in his report to the President. yi

Scientists Surprised A NUMBER of eminent scientists called in to work on top projects during the war, have told me that they were surprised by two things. One was that the armed “forces had taken so little advantage of the progress of science up to 1940. They said that the armed forces just didn’t have many items which they took it for granted were already in existence. Their other complaint concerned the insistence of the army and navy to tell scientists in detail what they were supposed to design or invent instead of saying to them, “Here is our problem: what do you regard as the best way to solve it?” The angry complaints of the rank and file of scienfists who worked on the atomic bomb project are well known. A number of these scientists have even gone so far as to say that the bomb could have been finished 18 months earlier but for the army system of compartmentalization which made it impossible for scientists working on one phase to benefit by consultation with those working on another, All these things add up to why a board of topranking scientists concerned with national defense is a necessity today.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

you get on better with others if you have -consideration for them.

Approves Scientific Use I DIFFER with people who would not use dogs for scientific experiments because I think scientists are careful not to inflict pain, Through the use of animals, much has been learned which has been beneficial to mankind. While I would never want a dog used except by a real scientist, I would never prevent the development of knowledge in this way. An organization called Youth United for Famine Relief has been formed. It is an auxiliary to the President's famine committee and is sponsored by the National Social Welfare assembly. - The groups that have banded together to help other young people in.the world through conserva-

tion of food, and through better understanding of how

food can be provided, will obtain a liberal educa-

tion through their contacts with young people in

other hatibris. o

The organizations co-opériting are the American Junior’ Red Cross, K Boy -Scouts, Girl Scouts, Boys’ Clubs of America, the youth department of the National Catholic .Welfare conference, the 4-H clubs, |dev Future Farmers of America, Future Home-Makers of provement of more familiar tools

America, and a great many more.

For | i that reason the small clothesline was put up in the]

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"SECOND SECTION SORORITY RUSH WEEK AT DE PAUW—

The closest of harmony. . . . To entertain their guests, the Alpha Chi Omega sorority presented a “Bowery” playlet. The quartet included (left to right) Billie Bull, Macon, O.; Betty Jean Wilkes, Harvey, Ill.; Betty Lou Benson, Batavia, Ill, and Ann McTaggart, Chicago. The show was part of a three-hour program put on for rushees at DePauw university.

"Tis a “mellowdramer.” . , , The guests hissed violently as the villain tried to take away a family homestead in the Kappa Alpha Theta play. The actors are (left to right) Marjorie Hall, Wilmette, IIL; Betts Roberts, Oak Park, Ill; Sally Custer, LaGrange, Ill, and Marybelle Dailey, Cleveland. Rush week at the Greencastle school was in the prewar tradition, :

The singing sixsome. . , . Fraternity songs filled the air when the entertainers of Kappa Kappa Gamma took the floor. Shown are (left to right) Joan Glasner, LaGrange, IIL; Kim McClain, Canton, O.; Jo Jean Wheeler, Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.; Virginia Jones, Lagrange, Ind, and Lynn Bradley, Joplin, Mo. Marguerite Lipes, Lebanon, Ind, is seated in the center. They are dressed to represent different phases of college life.

? By VICTOR PETERSON Times Staff Writer GREENCASTLE, Ind. Sept. 25.— Gentlemen, it was a wonderful experience. Can you imagine being surrounded for three solid hours by hundreds of the most beautiful women you ever have seen? And almost every one was dressed In sweeping evening gowns, many cut with that low .,.er.,.,er,,. exciting mod- 7 ern design. 4 I'm telling you it has any “sul- : tan” drawing in Esquire backed right off the page. And there I was the only man among these hundreds of visions with their hair piled high or hanging shoulder low. 5 - ” OVER ALL hung the scent of a perfume factory and the packing room of a cosmetics concern. I'm telling you it was a tough assighment. The job was to get inside the DePauw university sororities during that most secret of secret times . . , rush week. It was simple. The women loved the publicity for their chapters for here was the real pre-war collegiate life. All the groups from the Alpha to the Omega end of the Greék . alphabet were putting on the s of shows. This was. pay-off time

in the drive for new members. » ”

” EACH HOUSE had devised their own distinct theme for the parties.

The glass slipper. . . . The story of Cinderella was enacted by members of Delta Zeta for rushees. Here are (left to right) Beverly Ann Farquer, Indianapolis; Charlene Clore, Indianapolis, and Nancy Craig, St. Louis.

in, either. They could use some of

rushees.

Broadway playwrites to take a look! this, talgic songs.

‘Garden’ of America

AND AS the yearlings went from

nessed the skits they devise for|the playlets at which wide-eyed| As the hour closed actives and freshmen gazed upih With wonder. | pledges’ stood in semi-darkness and It wouldn't hurt a few of the|They had heard college was like |sang farewell with their most nosMany a youngsters

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1946

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A bit of nightelubbing. , . . Delts during the rush party were (left to right) Joy

Toasting the Tri

Hoy, Cincinnati; Toddie Burch, St. Louis; Betty Howard, Cincinnati; Ruth Kennedy, Cincinnati; Dorothy Lami, Elmhurst, Ill.; Jane Dallavo, Royal Oak, Mich., and Janice McArt, Anderson, Ind,

To strains from the harps. . . . Rushees and members of Alpha Gamma Delta heard South American tunes at their house party. Shown are, back row (left to right) Eleanor White, Lakewood, 0.; Margaret Inman, Rocky River, O.; Harriett Shonkwiler, Montreal, Canada; Beverly Bennett, Rockford, Ii; Dorothy Murray, Chicago, and Jane Ritter, Springfield, O. Middle row (left to right) Margaret Blackwell, Anchorage, Ky.; Jane Lydrickson, Rocky River, O., and Alice Rutherford, Oakland, Fla. Front row (left to right) Barbara Lenfesty, Columbus, Ind.; Barbara Whalen, Chicago; Martha Murrill, Fredericktown, Mo. and Ruth Orton, South Bend: y

Mardi Gras Queen. . . . The gay hilarity of festival time was the theme for Alpha Omicron. Nancy Williams, Glenview, Ill, crowns Virginia

Plate, Chicago. All DePauw sororities participated in the entertainment,

A show of fashion. . , . Clothes the well-dressed college girl will wear were modeled by (left to right) Norma Jean Peabody, Greencastle, Ind.; Norma Bailey, Rockford, Ill; Gloria Fred, Marion, Ind, and Janet Cadmus, LaGrange, Ill, all Alpha Phis.

eyes were damp as the goodnights

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beauties.

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ions Seek | Peace, but Don't Say ‘Communism’

By FRED W. PERKINS Scripps-Howard Staff Writer

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WASHINGTON, Sept. 25, — Two union meetings

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JP | talked of a possible third world war | —from imperialistic or capitalistic > causes, but communism wasn't mentioned. The meetings were of the executive bureau of the World Federation in which the American C. I. O. sits with Russian * representatives, and of the Ameri can Jewish Labor council, made up of New York city labor unions with a pronounced Communist plexion,

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THE AMERICAN JEWISH Labor council is headed by Ben Gold, president of the C. I. Os left-wing Fur and Leather Workers union, and a member of the Communist party's national committee. A dis rector of the council is Louis Wein stock, secretary-treasurer of New , York district council No. 9 of the A. F. of L. Brotherhood of Painters, and also a member of the Coms« munist national committee. The council sent delegations to the U. 8, state department and to Lord Inverchapel, British ambassa~

They protested “British

terror against the Jewish people,” particularly in Palestine. The dele+ gation that went to call on Gore don P, Merriam, chief of the state department's division of Near Bast« ern affairs, reported to a press conference it had received admissions that the Palestine situation threatened a new war, Spokesmen for the state department denied that such sn admission had been made, Milliam Levner and Harry Sacher, New York left-wing leaders of the two delegations, saw the press in the Washington offices of the C. I, O. United Electrical Workers. This |is the union that in convention three weeks ago swamped an anti Communist drive against its pres ent leadership. “We are pained and shoetked,” said Messrs. Levner and Sacher, “that our own American government has failed to utter a single word arrestinig or condemning the naked British terror.”

THE WORLD FEDERATION of

big union transport workers. one of the main reasons why the United Kingdom now has a labor government. Mr, Deakin was questioned at s | press conference in C. I. O, head. quarters here about W, F. T. U. declarations that the chief threat exists in the Fascist rem nants in. Germany, Franco Spain and Italy, as alleged in WF. T. U. statements, . “No, I wouldn't say that,” ane swered Mr. Deakin. “Then,” said a questioner, “where do the threats come from?” Mr, Deakin’s answer was confused by questions that piled on him in relation to other phases of the international labor situation and was never made clear, Sitting with him, with an inter preter, was M. P, Tarasov, delegate __|of the Soviet Union, The meeting 7 |ended “with' a denunciation of fascism, monopolists and capitalists —but nothing sald about come munism,

Unions had its beginning in Lone don in February a year ago. The C. L O, barred by the A. F. of IL. from membership in the Interna tional Laobr organization and less official world labor bodies, sent a delegation of 11, both lefts and rights. The Russian labor organizations sent 30 delegates, voting as a unit, and enough to overshadow all other delegations. The new head of W. FP. T. U. is Arthur Deakin,

a leader: of the

British Labor party and also of the in his country, This union is

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war

By Science Service | 25.—Plu- | } Whohiovge bh os. range | TOW issue of army ordnance, pub- trolled. rockets — radio-guided to. "targets |lished here: : _|picked out by their television eyes —are something for the more or less far “fiiture. Until these terrific weapons come, however, the navy is devoting some attention to the im-

enemy aircraft during the recent war. Its bullets will be nearly three-quarters of an inch in di‘ameter, instead of the present gun's|

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An automatic three-inch antiA new 70-caliber machirre gun, aircraft cannon, twin-mounted like'|tiofi-handling and loading machinto replace the present 50-caliber thé present 40-millimeter Bofors, ery for the triple eight-inch guns|that weapon, swhich was the terror of | but throwing proximity-fuzed shells{of heavy cruiser turrets, that will{service. But that was back in | make possible a rate of fire several|days when money talked. Now we have to do the ourselves—and we do it in our soles osty persuasive

of nearly double its caliber and five or six times the weight of the Bofors

An automatic five-inch rocket

.70 Caliber Machine Gun Among Army's New Weapons

Here are a few, as listed in the” Walf-inch.' First will be radar-con- (launcher able to get off its whizzing

missiles at the rate of 40 a minute. Completely automatic ammuhi-

times greater than that of the pres-

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We, The Women

Shortages Are Making Folks Diplomatic

RUTH MILLETT

SHORTAGES HAVE done mote to make us a nation of diplomats than did that one-time best-seller “How to Win Friends and Influence People.” Today we're really using the old 2 | personal approach. We start in to ¥ soften up the butcher by inquiring about his sinus trouble—better, we trust—and then listen sympatheti« cally while he cusses OPA. Ten minutes later we apologeti~. cally bring the conversation around to the pound of bacon we are hoping to be able to bring home.

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WE HANDLE the car dealer with the same kid gloves, giving him lavish assurances that we know he is doing the best he: can, etc. The girl at the stocking or shirt counter gets our friendliest smile and our politest “Thank you” when she turns us down, We cajole the. carpenter when we need a bit of fixing done around the house. We assure him that we know how busy he is and that there is no great rush—but could

all, I spent three hours planted in possibly, entirely at his cone the middle of a garden of American he Doan il ote.? y » ’ .

{ ‘WE TRY not to ask the landlord for anything, but if we have to, we make sure we don't voice our need in tone of a complaint, look at matters from his point of view, We're, just trying to be help’ ful, to save him from a pair job later on. We may once have been a liked to swagger and demand

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